MOUNTAIN MEADOWS - LYRICS
Finger and Tongues
The hell you’re in from where I stand
No we don’t mind no that you’ve run and hid
When the silver bees fly you won’t be saved
And they won’t take you to a better place
Oh, they weigh you down with the memories of our bones
And they bury you in the schoolyard with their finger and their thumbs
And oh, they parade us out to the valley of the sun
And as you lay prostrate on the interstate they cut out all our tongues
The little ones were all they saved
As they laid them open on the salty plains
They claimed the wild ones were the ones to blame
As they buried families with their names
Oh, they weigh you down with the memories of our bones
And they bury you in the schoolyard with their finger and their thumbs
And oh, they parade us out to the valley of the sun
And as you lay prostrate on the interstate they cut out all our tongues
Where they take our bones
And where they take our bones
And where they take our bones
And well they take our bones
T-BILL
Come on Dad
Come on down
And sing that song
As we right that smile
Write it all down for you
Well I’ll write it all down for you
Bitter teeth bitter tunes bitter you
Well you sew well you sew what you say
Still you kill your love when you can
And why?
Why would you kill this world my son
And why?
Why would you leave it all for naught
Why would these words have claimed come from you?
The poisoned pills in the tears and the truth
Well you sew well you sew what you said
Still you kill the love when you can
And why?
Why would you kill this world my son
And why?
Why would you leave it all for naught
But the world well it sets beneath those stars
Well I’ll write it all down for you
Bitter teeth bitter tunes bitter you
Well you sew well you sew what you say
Still you kill the love when you can
And why?
Why would you kill this world my son
And why?
Why would you leave it all for naught
But the world well it sets beneath your scars
Without Again
The road divides ahead
He’s wide awake in bed
Unaware but suspicious this is happening to him again
His love went south
And he’ll go West
A mountain of song couldn’t fill the hole in his chest that she left
When she said he was like the rest
So get up
Get out
What are you down about
Put it back on the shelf
Just have to go without again
So get up
Get out
What are you down about
Put it back on the shelf
Just have to go without again
The road divides ahead
He’s wide awake in bed
Put it back on the shelf
Just have to go without again
Garden River
I once kissed a girl
See lately in my time
I keep losing faith in these dusty dirty dives
She says where will you be
In your dying days
Why do you still believe the Soo can be saved?
Son, well they’ll take you down
Soon they’ll be right around
Son well they’ll take you down stomp on your heart and their gone
I keep lying here
Starring at this fading bulb
Shadows pass underneath as they curse the lives they’ve bought
Words whispered in my ear
Telling me its time to go
Son well they’ll take you down
Soon they’ll be right around
Son well they’ll take you down stomp on your heart steal all your love and their gone
Valley Town
When the wind bends the trees
And them clouds are pushin east,
Come on inside.
Dry your clothes,
Warm your bones,
Fill your glass and set yourself at ease.
When the dust in your room
Covers all that you do,
Get yourself outside.
Morning train
Is pulling away,
Hear the whistle fade and set yourself at ease.
There's a house by the hill
How I long for her still
My home sweet home
Home Sweet Home.
Notes
She put pen to page
Then raised us from the floor
She whistled the tune
That welcomed in the trains
Stood straight and right
The beacon and the light
She put pen to page
Then raised us from the floor
She whistled the tune
That welcomed in the trains
Stood straight and right
The beacon for the fight
She put pen to page
That opened all the doors
Woodward Ave.
Well I’ll take you riding
But the rouse sits upon our cheeks
These clouds won’t stay forever
And these leaves well they won’t see
I’ll take you riding in my Ford my model-T
These clowns will be mistaken
The souls we save are creased
Their bodies roll off lines
Into the arms of mass appeal
I’ll hold you in my arms now as we stroll down the boulevard
And how we love the evening in gaslight flooded streets
We pour into the dance halls
Where the floors jump through our feet
As night gives way to day now
We wake beneath our tree
Chased back into hiding
Where no one ever sees
I’ll take you riding in my Ford my model-T
31 years
Countless wandering days
In a wagon train parade,
with a prairie serenade.
We did try to take that mountain,
But the mountain had its way.
Back at the fort,
with exhausted winter stores,
and some friends beneath the floor.
We won't live to see that spring,
or what we came out here for.
The Spring Floods (Interlude)
Instrumental
Chuckwagon
Instrumental
The Body
It was well into June and the sun was lost when we came upon her there
It had been some time it had been a while since she drew her dying breath
See the river ran low arm wounds deep what did you do to deserve these
Kristin our friend
It has been so long since she’s been here darling oh say Madeline
We’ll bring you home
Under the moon she trusted lies well they took her to her grave
In the end Paul took her soul
It has been so long since she’s been here darling oh say Madeline
We’ll bring you home
Miss You Now
Tuesdays and Saturdays
I’d walk you home
So you’d not be alone
So you’d not be alone
I don’t know
Sixteen and lost in your ways
You fear you’d not be saved
You fear you’d not be saved
Well I don’t know
And day by day by day I want to pick up the phone
got to leave it alone
got to leave it alone
cause I miss you now
I miss you now
Well I’ve been missing all your kisses
I’m missing all your misses
Why can’t I be with you tonight
I miss you now
I miss you now
I miss you now
Well I miss you
And day by day by day I want to pick up the phone
got to leave it alone
got to leave it alone
cause I miss you now
I miss you now
I miss you now
Well I miss you
Sixteen and lost in your ways
You fear you’d not be saved
You fear you’d not be saved
Well I miss you now
I miss you now
I miss you now
Well I’ve been missing all your kisses
I’m missing all your misses
Why can’t you be with me tonight
I miss you now
I miss you now
I miss you now
Well I miss you